Journal of Language and Politics

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Language and Politics is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
How quotation marks do mockery in online politicized discourse38
Utopia, war, and justice33
Review of Shi-xu (2024): The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Discourse Studies25
News on fake news21
Limits, frontiers, antagonism18
Discourses of fake news16
(De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis16
Shaping gender policies at the COPs11
Review of Howard (2023): Multilingualism in the Andes: Policies, Politics, Power11
A meta-discursive analysis of engagement markers in QAnon anti-immigration comments11
Critical junctures beyond the black box10
Attack of the critics10
Demarcating rights in divided social worlds9
Review of Lütge, Merse & Rauschert (2022): Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections8
Review of Price & Harbisher (2021): Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse8
Setting boundaries between crime and rights8
Serbian Progressive Party’s shameless normalization of expressing sycophancy toward the leader8
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“You are fake news”7
Review of Butler (2024): Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimization Strategies in Crisis and Conflict7
Review of Demata (2023): Discourses of Borders and the Nation in the USA: A Discourse-historical Analysis7
Perception of charisma in text and speech7
Equivocation in media communication6
Review of Jones (2021): Viral Discourse6
Metalinguistic tactics in the Hong Kong protest movement6
Multimodality as civic participation6
“The rock of stability?”6
Recursion theory and the ‘death tax’6
Discourses and practices of the ‘New Normal’6
Romania’s first female prime minister’s meme-ification5
Review of Chiluwa (2021): Discourse and Conflict: Analysing Text and Talk of Conflict, Hate and Peace-building5
Strategic functions of linguistic impoliteness in US primary election debates5
Review of Fotiadou (2022): The Language of Employability: A Corpus-Based Analysis of UK University Websites5
The struggle between the power of language and the language of power5
Visions of the good future5
The discursive representation of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Austrian news coverage: 2010–2015–20204
“These are not just slogans”4
A fence of opportunity4
Political discourse analysis of female political leaders in the Global South4
Enemy narratives4
Examining political influence on language4
The aesthetic values of the semiotic choices in Arab protests4
Constitutive representation of womanhood4
Review of Barakos (2020): Language Policy in Business: Discourse, Ideology and Practice4
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The (anti-)political logic of authoritarian institutionalism3
Review of Closs Stephens (2022): National Affects: The Everyday Atmospheres of Being Political3
The construction of agency in the discourse of Barbados’ prime minister Mia Mottley3
Review of Nartey (2022): Political Myth-making, Populist Performance and Nationalist Resistance: Examining Kwame Nkrumah’s Construction of the African Unity Dream3
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More than “Fake News”?3
Review of Knoblock (2020): Language of Conflict: Discourses of the Ukrainian Crisis3
From Barack Obama to Donald Trump3
Discourse theory and the turn to practice3
Review of Caimotto & Raus (2023): Lifestyle Politics in Translation: The Shaping and Re-shaping of Ideological Discourse3
Navigating the ideological tide3
Farmers as symbol of ‘the people’3
From controversy to common ground3
The rise of the new Polish far-right3
‘If you see [blank], say [blank]’3
Rhetorical (ir)responsibility in the Australian Parliament3
Reimagining Europe and its (dis)integration3
Review of Seargeant (2024): The future of language: How technology, politics and utopianism are transforming the way we communicate3
From more to less ‘Civil’ borderline discourses in mainstream media and government3
Review of Caple, Huan & Bednarek (2020): Multimodal News Analysis across Cultures3
The construction and legitimation of Elisa Loncón as a Mapuche female political leader on Instagram2
On the language of liberalism2
Widening the North/South Divide? Representations of the role of the EU during the Covid-19 crisis in Spanish media2
Review of Handford & Gee (2023): The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis2
Negotiating trust through COVID-19 press briefings2
“Hope dies – Action begins”2
“We pursue justice”2
Subverting EU legal concepts2
Review of Chun (2022): Applied Linguistics and Politics2
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Discourses on gender in climate change adaptation projects of Bangladesh2
Language, Politics and Media1
Mass identifications and mythical violence1
The politics of fear in Hong Kong protest representations1
Far-right discourse in Brazil1
Discourse Theory and the Turn to Practice1
A topic modeling-assisted diachronic study of “One Country, Two Systems” represented in Anglo-American newspapers1
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‘They will not survive here’1
Review of Arnall & Chenoweth (2025): Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics1
Review of Li, Lui & Fung (2020): Systemic functional political discourse: A text-based study1
Politician, activist… or hero?1
Return migrants from the United States to Mexico1
Gender, language, and representation in the United States Senate1
Review of Tam (2020): Dialect and Nationalism in China, 1860–19601
Review of Romano (2024): Metaphor in Socio-Political Contexts1
Review of Stefanie (2021): Discourses of the Arab revolutions in media and politics1
Review of Musolff & Breeze (2022): Pandemic and Crisis Discourse Communicating COVID-19 and Public Health Strategy1
Radical Right-Wing Populism and Borders1
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Review of Stavrakakis (2024): Populist Discourse: Recasting Populism Research1
Sailing toIthaka1
New opportunities for discourse studies1
Review of Feldman (2020): The Rhetoric of Political Leadership: Logic, and Emotion in Public Discourse1
Populist radical right beyond Europe1
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Review of Russell (2024): Fighting Words: A Critical Approach to Linguistic Transgression1
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Polarising metaphors in the Venezuelan Presidential Crisis1
Review of Statham (2022): Critical discourse analysis: A practical introduction to power in language1
France’s “drôle de guerre”1
Reporting the others’ speech, uncovering China’s world dream1
The utility of (political) dogwhistles – a life cycle perspective1
Culture of Sustainability and Discourses of Social Change1
The static welfare claimant vs. the dynamic migrant1
The good, the bad, and the ugly0
Review of Akbari (2020): Iran’s Language Planning Confronting English Abbreviations: Persian Terminology Planning0
Review of Matthiessen, Wang, Ma & Mwinlaaru (2022): Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics0
Discourse Theory and Strategic Communication0
Disalignment in the EU0
The groundwork of Putin’s war0
Studying affect through discourse theory0
Legitimation in revolutionary discourse0
From social awareness to authoritarian other0
Review of Augé (2023): Metaphor and Argumentation in Climate Crisis Discourse0
“First forced displacements, then slaughter”0
A meaningless buzzword or a meaningful label? How do Spanish politicians usepopulismoandpopulistaon Twitter?0
Review of Korhonen, Kotze & Tyrkkö (2023): Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space0
Review of Wodak (2020): The Politics of Fear0
Delegitimizing the media?0
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Positioning antagonistic discourses in the (de)bounded spaces of power0
Jair Bolsonaro and the defining attributes of the populist radical right in Brazil0
Review of Islentyeva (2021): Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideological Bias: Migration in the British Press0
Dimensions of time and space in narratives for climate action0
Supplementing the tropes0
Media portrayals of the Hong Kong Occupy Central Movement’s social actors0
Beyond the law0
When in parliamentary debate there is no debate0
Review of Forchtner (2023): Visualising far-right environments: Communication and the politics of nature0
Discourses of Fake News0
Review of Wu (2023): Media Representations of Macau’s Gaming Industry in Greater China: A Corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis0
The representation of migrant identities in UK Government documents about Brexit0
Review of Rajandran & Lee (2023): Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia: Legitimising Governance0
Review of Deringer & Ströbel (2022): International Discourses of Authoritarian Populism: Varieties and Approaches0
Review of Wodak & Forchtner (2021): The Routledge Handbook of Language and Politics0
Review of Parnell (2024): Constructing Brexit Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Approach to National Identity Discourse0
De/legitimising EUrope through the performance of crises0
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Anthropomorphism, anthropocentrism, and human-orientation in environmental discourse0
Review of Liu (2021): The Language of Political Incorporation: Chinese Migrants in Europe0
Review of Fariña (2023): Psychological Borders in Europe and the United States: Contemporary Nationalism, Nativism, and Populism0
Taking the left way out of Europe0
Revealing China’s diplomatic narratives of the Belt and Road Initiative0
Review of Íñigo-Mora & Lastres-López (2024): Discourse Approaches to an Emerging Age of Populist Politics0
When pro-vaccine media discourses meet vaccine hesitancy0
Review of Capan, dos Reis & Grasten (2021): The Politics of Translation in International Relations0
Political homophobia0
Review of Charteris-Black (2020): Metaphors of Coronavirus0
Review of Feldman (2021): When Politicians Talk: The Cultural Dynamics of Public Speaking0
Examining the communication of female political leaders in the Global South0
Review of Cheng & Machin (2023): The law and critical discourse studies0
Review of Italiano (2020): The Dark Side of Translation0
Interests convergence in global human rights politics0
Mearsheimer, Putin, ideology, and the war in Ukraine0
Community organising and radical democracy0
Cultivation of sustainability in a discourse of change0
Review of Carpentier & Wimmer (2025): Democracy and Media in Europe: A Discursive-Material Approach0
Review of Tachtiris (2024): Translation and race0
Legitimizing the interventions recommended in “European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022–2024”0
“Does being pretty help?”0
Humanitarian discourse as racism disclaimer0
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Epistemic stance and public discourse on irregular migration in one of Europe’s outermost regions0
National identity revisited0
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Claims of ownership, claims of dignity0
BIOMETRIC CITIZENS in smart cities0
Doing gender at the far right0
The arrival of the populist radical right in Chile0
Migrants are not welcome0
Borderless fear?0
Fighting talk0
‘Fake news’ discourses0
Review of Ilie (2024): Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis0
Fighting an indestructible monster0
“Britain was already cherry-picking from the European tree without bothering to water the soil or tend to its branches”0
Parrhesia, orthodoxy, and irony0
The populist radical right beyond Europe0
The leader and the people0
Review of Wachowski & Sullivan (2022): Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World0
Temporal agency of social movements0
Review of Baker, Vessey & McEnery (2021): The Language of Violent Jihad0
Discourse and transformation0
Attitudinal stance towards the anti-extradition bill movement in China Daily and South China Morning Post0
ICT environmentalism and the sustainability game0
Emergent Twitter publics through political scandal0
Reverberations0
Review of van Dijk (2021): Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action0
Unveiling ideological shifts in news trans‑editing0
Populating ‘solidarity’ in political debate0
Right-wing populist media events in Schengen Europe0
Review of Verschueren (2021): Complicity in Discourse and Practice0
Review of Stibbe (2024): Econarrative: Ethics, Ecology, and the Search for New Narratives to Live By0
Review of Chambers & Demir (2024): Translation and Decolonisation: Interdisciplinary Approaches0
Review of van Dijk (2024): Social movement discourse: An introduction0
“We shall not flag or fail, we shall go on to the end”0
The European migrant crisis in Polish parliamentary discourse0
Review of Demasi, Burke & Tileagă (2021): Political communication: Discursive perspectives0
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Policy discourse in times of crisis0
Environmental conservation and urban development as competing stories of place and space in Singapore0
Entrepreneur or capitalist?0
The use of metaphors to construct crisis discourses in describing COVID-19 vaccines in the Chinese and the American news media0
Review of Koller (2023): Voices of Supporters: Populist Parties, Social Media and the 2019 European Elections0
Linguistic landscapes of activism0
Review of Ni (2021): A Study on Outward Translation of Chinese Literature (1949–1966)0
Review of Serafis (2023): Authoritarianism on the Front Page: Multimodal Discourse and Argumentation in Times of Multiple Crises in Greece0
Beyond ‘fake news’?0
Social media, politics, and the rise of the anti-refugee far-right in Turkey0
The discursive construction of solidarity by Ghanaian female parliamentarians0
Revisiting the rhetorical construction of political consent0
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)0
The populist radical right in Australia0
Audience constructions of fake news in Australian media representations of asylum seekers0
Review of Almanna & House (2023): Translation Politicised and Politics Translated0
Reactions to interruptions in Finnish, French and German parliamentary debates0
“Türkiye,” not “Turkey”0
The power of language0
From “them” to “us”?0
“Almost a mother tongue”0
Review of Ajšić (2021): Language and Ethnonationalism in Contemporary West Central Balkans: A Corpus-based Approach0
“We” in the EU: (De) legitimizing power relations and status0
Of infiltrators and wild beasts0
Framing the political conflict discourse in Chinese media0
Review of Bielsa (2023): A Translational Sociology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Politics and Society0
Review of Stavrakakis & Katsambekis (2024): Research Handbook on Populism0
“There is new technology here that can perform miracles”0
Review of Al-Shboul (2023): The Politics in Climate Change Metaphors in the U.S. Discourse: Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Analysis from an Ecolinguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis Perspective0
The awkward rhetoric of Spanish liberalism0
Commemoration and radical right-wing populism in European borderlands0
A Europeanisation of American politics?0
Collective identity construction in the covid-19 crisis0
In the name of the nobility of the cause, what I did is right0
“The youths are wiser now”0
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Activism or slacktivism?0
Border-making as illiberal politics0
Moral panic and (in)security0
Populism and contingency0
Poisoning the information well?0
Review of Baysha (2022): War, Peace, and Populist Discourse in Ukraine0
Review of Pennycook (2021): Critical Applied Linguistics: A Critical Reintroduction0
Exploring the evolution of the concept of liberty in the U.S. presidential inaugurals0
Review of Woodhams (2019): Political Identity in Discourse: The Voices of New Zealand Voters0
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